Foolproof Strategies for Finding the Right Answer on the BOC Exam

A good way to work through the athletic training Board of Certification (BOC) exam is to have foolproof strategies for working through both the questions and the answers you have to choose from. The key to maximizing your performance on test day is to have a solid foundation of content knowledge and to practice putting that knowledge into practice. By building up and strengthening your content knowledge, you’ll find that the strategies you use will help you sift through distracting questions and traps to come up with the best answer faster.

We’ve already gone over strategies for approaching the question, so let’s take a look at how we can strategize eliminating the answers until you get the right one.

Answer Selection & Elimination

The most obvious strategy to start with is to identify and eliminate clearly incorrect answers. Through a process of elimination, you can often quickly identify the correct answer. However, sometimes an answer choice may appear to be correct when it’s not. The BOC exam writers often put more than one plausible answer choice on each question. Take the time to read each answer and ensure that the other answer choices are not equally obvious. If you pace yourself, it’s best to read each answer choice carefully rather than quickly choose the response that you…